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You can do 200000 unique visitors on a 80486. Oh wait, you did not explain what kind of product you have online. Is it a rails app? Does it need storage? Is it

by st3fan 15y ago

You can do 200000 unique visitors on a 80486. Oh wait, you did not explain what kind of product you have online. Is it a rails app? Does it need storage? Is it just static html? Give out more details and people can probably give you pretty good estimates and ideas on scalability.

japhyr 15y ago
I'm thinking of projects like codecademy. Something that uses a framework like rails or django. Something that needs a moderate amount of storage, but not a photo or video site where storage is the focus. Not just static html.
- retroafroman 15y ago
  Unfortunately, this sort of information is still too vague to make even a stab in the dark at server sizing worthwhile. If you're curious about how much CodeAcademy needed, I bet someone would be willing to tell if you tweeted/emailed/facebooked them. If you're looking for more data points I bet a lot of start ups would be willing to share their server info (and a lot have here at HN). If you're asking because you want to know for your own project, don't put the cart before the horse-build it, do some testing and you'll be able to make an assumption that is actually based on something more than guesses.
  - japhyr 15y ago
    Thanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs. Actually, if anyone can point to such a discussion on HN I'd appreciate it. I couldn't easily find a relevant discussion, because the word "server" appears in so many threads.
    - retroafroman 15y ago
      I just searched and maybe these conversations don't come up as often as I thought. On the other hand, it's also difficult to nail this sort of topic down because so many startups use Heroku, EngineYard, AWS, etc, so it's more like number of instances vs. number of servers. It seems Quora has a lot more insight. Examples here: http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have

by st3fan 15y ago

japhyr 15y ago

I'm thinking of projects like codecademy. Something that uses a framework like rails or django. Something that needs a moderate amount of storage, but not a photo or video site where storage is the focus. Not just static html.

retroafroman 15y ago
Unfortunately, this sort of information is still too vague to make even a stab in the dark at server sizing worthwhile. If you're curious about how much CodeAcademy needed, I bet someone would be willing to tell if you tweeted/emailed/facebooked them. If you're looking for more data points I bet a lot of start ups would be willing to share their server info (and a lot have here at HN). If you're asking because you want to know for your own project, don't put the cart before the horse-build it, do some testing and you'll be able to make an assumption that is actually based on something more than guesses.
- japhyr 15y ago
  Thanks, I thought it would be easy to give a ballpark answer. I will keep an eye out for a discussion of scaling in regards to server needs. Actually, if anyone can point to such a discussion on HN I'd appreciate it. I couldn't easily find a relevant discussion, because the word "server" appears in so many threads.
  - retroafroman 15y ago
    I just searched and maybe these conversations don't come up as often as I thought. On the other hand, it's also difficult to nail this sort of topic down because so many startups use Heroku, EngineYard, AWS, etc, so it's more like number of instances vs. number of servers. It seems Quora has a lot more insight. Examples here: http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have http://www.quora.com/How-Many-Servers-Does-X-Have